discoveries {base} | R Documentation

## Yearly Numbers of Important Discoveries

### Description

The numbers of “great” inventions and scientific discoveries in each year from 1860 to 1959.

### Usage

    data(discoveries)

### Format

A time series of 100 values.

### Source

The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1975 Edition, pages 315–318.

### References

McNeil, D. R. (1977) Interactive Data Analysis. Wiley.

### Examples

    data(discoveries)
    plot(discoveries, ylab = "Number of important discoveries",
         las = 1)
    title(main = "discoveries data set")

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